#wise man

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins. ↗

— Jerome Cady

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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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